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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Cc: ebiggers@google.com, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	hch@lst.de, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] nilfs2: support STATX_DIOALIGN for statx file
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 07:11:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240828051110.GA31869@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86e1541f-0d8b-4479-b8d1-bb5a9f5849d4@huawei.com>

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 09:12:50AM +0800, Hongbo Li wrote:
>> I checked the STATX_DIOALIGN specification while looking at the
>> implementation of other file systems, and I thought that if DIO
>> support is incomplete, the dio_xx_align member should be set to 0.
>>
>> Due to the nature of NILFS2 as a log-structured file system, DIO
>> writes fall back to buffered io.  (DIO reads are supported)
>>
> That's really a question. How to handle the asymmetric situation of 
> O_DIRECT read and write?
>
> The STATX_DIOALIGN specification does not define this case.

Yes, it needs separate reporting for the read alignment.  I actually
wrote patches for that a few days ago, but never got around to testing
them.  I'll send out what I have.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-28  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-27  1:51 [PATCH -next] nilfs2: support STATX_DIOALIGN for statx file Hongbo Li
2024-08-27 18:15 ` Ryusuke Konishi
2024-08-28  1:12   ` Hongbo Li
2024-08-28  5:11     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-08-27  2:00 Hongbo Li
2024-08-27  1:55 ` Hongbo Li

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